Design Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when…

— Voltaire

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Anonymous

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Men still have to be governed by deception.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

— Steve Jobs

“One of the primary reasons that men undertake the teaching of false doctrine is greed.”

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe…

— Richard Dawkins

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

— Thomas Cranmer